Developing PRIDE: The Attendance of Gender and Sexual Diversity in Pagan Game Designers

We’re twenty days into June, which means that, for twenty days, my Facebook and Tumblr dashboards have consistently presented me an excess of rainbow flags, companions and couples and companies kissing for cameras, and the gender nonconforming and non-white reality of the Stonewall Riots. It also means that for twenty days, I’ve encountered (and, in more than one case, chosen to talk back to) posts that regard the Babbadook (from the eponymous film) an LGBT icon as well as arguments that claim all queer identities are linked to “fursonas” or furry-personas (delegitimizing queer Otherkin and theriomorphs). Tempers are running hot, mirroring the weather (political and otherwise) predicted for upcoming parades.